The autobiographical first novel by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, "A Daughter of the Samurai" tells the incredible true story of a young girl born into a high-status family in Nagaoka, Japan whose father, ……続きを見る
著者:Bruce Baird
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2022年03月31日
Butô is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the 20th century. One of the world's leading experts on the form, author ……続きを見る
著者:Kencho Suematsu
出版社: Shrine of Knowledge
発売日: 2020年04月16日
The Complete Works of Kencho Suematsu
Viscount Suematsu Kenchō was a Japanese politician, intellectual and author, who lived in the Meiji and Taishō periods. Apart from his activity in the Japanese ……続きを見る
"A lucid history of the rise and fall of militarism in Japan…" ーNew York Journal of Books
Japan at War in the Pacific recounts the dramatic story of Japan's transformation from a Samurai-led feudal……続きを見る
A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present is a unique study: the first by a Western scholar to place the long-term development of Japanese infrastructure alongside an a……続きを見る
Con documentación inédita, el libro da cuenta de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Chile: la relación del FBI y los servicios de inteligencia nacional, el clima de la guerra, la influencia alemana, el es……続きを見る
On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a shock t……続きを見る
In Ryotaro Shiba's account of the life of Japan's last shogun, Perry's arrival off the coast of Japan was merely the spark that ignited the cataclysm in store for the Japanese people and their gover……続きを見る
'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.'
Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of ……続きを見る
Japanese Role-playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing significant formal elements as wel……続きを見る
Clarity. Health. Peace of mind. These are the goals of The Way of Tea.
In this book, readers will learn more about all aspects of teaーfrom the practical to the spiritualーand how they can implement……続きを見る
著者:SUGIHARA Takashi
出版社: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture
発売日: 2022年04月15日
Lying in the Sea of Japan between Japan and the Korean Peninsula sits Takeshima, two islets surrounded by numerous rocks. At present, the issue of sovereignty over Takeshima remains contested betwee……続きを見る
著者:HIGURASHI Yoshinobu
出版社: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture
発売日: 2022年04月22日
The Tokyo Trial, like the Nuremberg Trial, was unique as a judicial event. Presided over by eleven Allied judges, Japan’s wartime leaders were individually tried in an international court of justice……続きを見る
When Tokugawa Ieyasu was appointed shogun of Japan in 1603, the fortunes of a sleepy fishing village called Edo were forever changed. Ieyasu transformed Edo ー today known as Tokyo ー into the bustl……続きを見る
著者:Viren Murthy
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2022年06月24日
Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially sign……続きを見る
著者:TAKATSUKI Yasuo
出版社: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture
発売日: 2022年05月02日
The Dojima Rice Exchange of the Edo period (1603-1868), located in Osaka, Japan, is known among researchers as “the world’s first futures trading market.” Much as modern markets do today, the Edo-pe……続きを見る
著者:Lynne Y. Nakano
出版社: University of Hawaii Press
発売日: 2022年03月31日
In East Asia’s largest cities, hundreds of thousands of women remain single into middle age and beyond, giving rise to a demographic transformation with profound implications for their societies. La……続きを見る
著者:A. Carly Buxton
出版社: University of Hawaii Press
発売日: 2022年03月31日
Unthinking Collaboration uncovers the little-known history of Japanese Americans who weathered the years of World War II on Japanese soil. Severed from the country of their birth when the attack on ……続きを見る
Christians have never constituted one percent of Japan’s population, yet Christianity had a disproportionately large influence on Japan’s social, intellectual, and political development. This happen……続きを見る
This collection of seventeen essays situates modern Shin Buddhist thinker Kiyozawa Manshi (1863–1903) and his new form of spirituality, Seishinshugi, in the broader context of Buddhism and religious……続きを見る
The samurai films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa are set in the past, but they tell us much about the present, as do his crime stories, romances, military films, medical dramas and ar……続きを見る
The reader may already be acquainted with the Hoeidō series (1833-34) of The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, author's ISBN 978-1-956215-09-0. This was the most popular print series ever made in……続きを見る
This edition includes the following editor's introduction:The history of silent feminism in Japan
Originally published in 1911, “Japanese Girls and Women” is a book by American writer and women's ……続きを見る
In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumors of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat--or "spiritual conquest"--that……続きを見る
Japanese mythology is rich and varied. They recount stories of deities, spirits, demons, monsters, animals, and legendary humans who struggled to overcome immense obstacles … the list is endless.
Mo……続きを見る
L’Empire du Japon resta inconnu à l’Europe jusqu’au XIIIe siècle, époque à laquelle Rubruquis et Marco Polo en dévoilèrent l’existence ; mais ce n’est guère qu’après l’arrivée dans les îles japonais……続きを見る
Il Nyokodo, il "luogo dell'amore a se stessi", è una piccolissima capanna di legno, di soli quattro metri quadrati, costruita nel cuore del quartiere di Nagasaki ridotto in cenere dalla bomba atomic……続きを見る
著者:Jie-Hyun Lim
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2022年05月30日
South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country’s development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As……続きを見る